Todd Secures Macau Grand Prix Win Ahead Of Hickman

English rider Davey Todd produced a ascendant capacity to romp to triumph successful nan Macau motorcycle expansive prix connected Saturday.

The Yorkshire rider vanished 10 seconds up of Zeeco 8TEN Racing BMW team-mate Peter Hickman, pinch Finnish rider Erno Kostamo, besides BMW-mounted, a further 14 seconds successful arrears successful third.

Todd was successful power of nan 12-lap title complete nan armco-lined 3.8-mile Guia circuit passim and managed nan spread complete his rivals to declare an emphatic success.

Polesitter Todd besides group nan fastest thigh of nan title astatine 2 minutes 23.702 seconds, marginally extracurricular Stuart Easton's 15-year-old thigh grounds of 2:23.616 seconds.

The 30-year-old three-time Isle of Man TT victor had been awarded nan triumph connected nan ground of mounting nan fastest qualifying clip 12 months ago, aft nan title was cancelled because of utmost upwind conditions caused by a passing typhoon.

The triumph completes a successful twelvemonth connected nationalist roadworthy circuits for nan Saltburn-on-Sea rider, who sealed a hat-trick of triumphs astatine nan North West 200, a Superbike title triumph astatine nan TT and took nan honours successful nan characteristic title astatine nan Southern 100.

Hickman, a four-time Macau GP winner, battled for 2nd spot pinch 2022 victor Kostamo successful nan early stages but nan Finn mislaid a number of positions aft overshooting astatine nan Lisboa conception of nan circuit, earlier recovering to declare nan last podium spot.

Wigan rider Rob Hodson clinched his champion decorativeness astatine nan arena by taking fourth, pinch Swiss rider Lukas Maurer and Italy's Maurizio Bottalico completing nan apical six.

Australian David Johnson, New Zealand newcomer Mitch Rees, Manx rider Michael Evans and Phil Crowe from England rounded retired nan apical 10.

Northern Ireland's Paul Jordan, Michael Sweeney from nan Republic of Ireland and England's Sam West each retired from nan race, pinch nan remaining 17 riders completing nan event.